Hello Haskell

Hello, my name is Paulo and I'm in Informatics Engineering at Universidade do Minho.
Here you have some basic tips to use the functional programming languague called Haskell.

• A Brief History of Haskell

Following the release of Miranda by Research Software Ltd, in 1985, interest in lazy functional languages grew: by 1987, more than a dozennon-strict, purely functional programming languages existed. Of these, Miranda was the most widely used, but was not in the public domain. At the conference on Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture (FPCA '87) in Portland, Oregon, a meeting was held during which participants formed a strong consensus that a committee should be formed to define an open standard for such languages. The committee's purpose was to consolidate the existing functional languages into a common one that would serve as a basis for future research in functional-language design.

in Wikipedia 

• Getting Started

1. Install Haskell - http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/
2. Install Haskell Editor - this step is optional, since you can use any text editor (such as notepad) to write a Haskell program, but other editors, such as Notepad++ can help you in keeping your code clean and organized. (Note: the file extension should be .hs)